The Nonconformist's Memorial today I brought bread waarin de dichter binnen elk

waarin de dichter binnen elk woord de strijd om betekenis aangaat in naam van het zingende lichaam

grijpt de verbeelding als toevlucht haar kans

” funny and sad—tells another story: of love

the remaining one watches TV

The Nonconformist's Memorial today I brought bread waarin de dichter binnen elkSusan Howe The Nonconformists Memorial is a gathering of four long sequences that underscores Susan Howes reputation as one of the leading experimentalists writing today. Howe is a poet of language in history whose work resonates back through Melville, Dickinson, and Shelley to the seventeenth century Metaphysicals and Puritans (the nonconformism of the title), and forward again to T. S. Eliot and the abstract expressionists. The sequences fall into